A group of people who knew each other as college students and friends during the 1960s end up getting back together some 20 years later after their friend Alex commits suicide. All of them have gone along their ways and now look back and wonder where their idealism went. Along the way, they renew their friendships, and sometimes even more, as they try to understand why Alex, with all of his potential, worked at menial jobs and then, for apparently no reason, decided to kill himself.

Corrupt Hick: Played with and subverted; Nick thinks the cop who pulled him over because he looks like a "Yankee drug dealer" is this, but he's willing to let the whole thing go when he recognizes Sam and asks him to recreate a stunt from his TV show (it doesn't go well). And then later, an angry Harold explains to Nick the cop had actually stopped the house from being broken into, and is a nice guy.

Sam: In Hollywood, I don't know who to trust. I don't know who likes me or why they even do like me.

Harold: Well, you don't have that problem here. (Sam smiles) You know I don't like you.

Michael: Me neither.

Meg: Ditto.

Harold: So relax.

Sam: Assholes!

Good People Have Good Sex: Many of the characters end up having sex with each other. Meg has considered getting pregnant, so Sarah decides to lend Meg her husband, Harold, for this purpose (and also to balance the books for own infidelity years earlier).

The film itself could be seen as one of these to John Sayles' 1980 independent film Return of the Secaucus 7, which similarly depicts a group of former Sixties radicals reuniting in the same house over a weekend.

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